CRAIGAVON

Introduction

Craigavon was designed with demographics in mind. From looking at the brochures promoting the new town from the late 60’s, there are an abundance of statistics which are all aimed to provide ideal living. From this, community would derive however, was this successful? Craigavon has a different sense of community due to the local immigration from surrounding areas. There were households who originated in rural and urban areas as well as those who migrated from afar.

* Victor Sloan, 1984, from the series ‘Vietnamese boat people’

Land

= One acre

in 1967, Craigavon was an exciting New Town which was advertised a lot through statistics. What’s interesting about the land allocation is the amount of acres reserved for Craigavon’s main priorities. For example, Craigavon was designed with the car in mind and therefore

Acres of Land usage

Primary schools

Local centres

Roads and reservations

Housing and reserve land

Landscape/recreation/main track

Secondary campus

Community

Religions into neighborhoodsCatholics majority

Protestants majority

Carnreagh

HighfieldsParkmore

Bluestone Hall

scale 1:25000

25.3%

21.4%

21.1%

20.6%

20%

12.4%

4.7%

0.5%

Persons under 18Persons under 16Persons between 45-65Persons between 30-44Persons between 16-29

Persons over 90Persons between 75-89Persons over 65

*Statistics taken from 2011 census

3367%

33Population of Craigavon economically active (census 2011) 3366% for whole Northern Ireland

7.9%Unemployed people in Craigavon (January 2013)

6%Labour market

Unemployed people in Northern Irleland (January 2013)

5.2%57,500

Number of people living in Craigavon at working age

Craigavon’s percentage of Northern Ireland’spopulation

students and qualifications

42.3%Percentage of population of Craigavon with no or low qualification

(level 1), Census 2011

32.6%39.2% in Belfast

Percentage of population of Craigavon with high qulification(Level 3 or higher) Census 2011